Seth Goldfarb

Hyperledger announced it has accepted eight new members and launched a new project focusing on new infrastructure for decentralized identity, including the Ethereum Foundation and Microsoft.

Gitcoin and ConsenSys Labs will host a three-week virtual hackathon called Beyond Blockchain from June 24–July 10.

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex announced the launch of a transparency initiative to coincide with the beginning of the burn mechanism of the company’s LEO token.

Peter Schiff, the CEO of brokerage firm Euro Pacific Capital, believes Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency will outcompete Bitcoin on stability and fees.

PayPal, Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, and Uber will be among over a dozen companies investing approximately $10 million each to back Facebook’s new cryptocurrency.

Bittrex struggled over the last two years amid problems with regulatory compliance and declining market share.

A screenshot of what appears to be a message from Block.one CEO Brendan Blumer reveals that he expects top social media influencers to be able to generate $50–100 million in revenue from Voice, EOS’s new social media platform.

The FASB and IASB, the two main rule-setting bodies for accounting standards worldwide, cited “lack of usage” as the main reason for not clarifying cryptocurrency accounting treatments.

CCN announced that it will be closing down its crypto-news publication.

DARMA Capital, a $100 million investment firm heavily invested in Ethereum, is opening to investors who want to go long on cryptocurrency, as first reported by Bloomberg.

MakerDAO token holders voted to decrease the stability fee on the Dai stablecoin by 2 percent to 17.5 percent.

Microsoft announced the development of an open-source formal Ethereum smart contract verification scheme for the Solidity programming language.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued messaging app Kik over their 2017 ICO for its KIN token.